Good morning everyone and welcome back to another morning with the masters where we devote

ourselves to the Lord daily with you. Good morning you guys. It is a good morning indeed.

We are picking up with a new devotional in the Bible app called Kindness in the Culture.

And there's a link to that in the description of the podcast if you guys want to fall along with

us and as always I'm going to read the scripture and then Tori is going to pick up with the

devote. Let's do it. The scripture is Romans chapter 2 verse 4 and it says this,

don't you see how wonderfully kind, tolerant and patient God is with you? Does this mean nothing to

you? Can't you see that his kindness is intended to turn you from your sin? The devotional says,

we're living in a time when it's only about me, what I think, how I feel, what I want.

And if I have to harm you with my words or my actions in order to get what I want, well too bad.

We see this attitude on display in the news every day. This kind of evil has penetrated our culture

but it should not be this way with God's people or it is not a reflection of God's heart.

The Bible tells us in Romans 2 4 that the kindness of God leads you to repentance. In other words,

God holds back from giving us the kind of response we all deserve. We treat him with disrespect

and ignore his commands but he doesn't give up on us every time we fail. The reason it's because

of his kindness. So since we are the recipients of such kindness, God expects us to be the ambassadors

of kindness here on earth. He doesn't just want you to be nice. He wants you to be kind.

Kindness is more than a personality trait. It's an action. Kindness shows itself in the way you treat

others. The question is, how has God shown kindness to you? I love that it pointed out that

kindness is more than a personality trait. It's an action. It's a decision. It's an intentional

effort because it's easy to kind of be nice when people are nice. But what do we do when people

aren't nice? What do we do when people are mean? How do we treat people? What do we do when

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